Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing to do with lifting the ship, that being the work of the hydrogen gas. and is not, as is commonly supposed, a new and mysterious discovery. The same gas, known as Pintsch gas, has been used in a less pure form to light railroad cars and farmers' stoves in this country for a decade. Herman Blau of Augsburg, Germany, simply refined upon the initial work of his friend Julius Pintsch and gave his name to the product...
...Less rigidly partisan than the Hearst web of 26 newspapers is the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, also 26 strong. The Scripps-Howard chain supported La Follette in 1924 and decided to support Hoover without "knocking" Smith this year. Scripps-Howard is wet. These facts explained the appearance, in close succession lately, of the two pictures by Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Harry F. Talburt reproduced on pages...
...Performance is modern romance, feathery, sophisticated. The queen smokes cigarets; the King of Wallachia abuses his wife, as does Lord Trench in The High Road; the actor, played well by Ian Keith, kisses the queen's hand in farewell and then pats it with affection; the prince, played less well by Ian Keith, sets off for the U. S. to make his living, one suspects, in a night club...
...next year, Washington won the pennant but lost the series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In the season that is just now over Washington did less well. Last week, Clark Griffith, who owns the Washington team. announced that he had "fired" Bucky Harris, but would help him get a job with another team if another team offered him one. Reporters met Bucky Harris coming out of the ball park and asked him for an explanation. "Go up and see Griffith," said Harris. Said Griffith: "The best interests of the club. . . . We are still the best of friends...
Hats, Haberdashery. Dunlap & Co., famed hatters, have merged with Kaskel & Kaskel, less famed Manhattan haberdashers. Kaskel & Kaskel is the consolidation's name...